Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-02-14
a News items.

Rev. H. NJ. Hopkinson, formerly "A mis-
| sionary in Burmah, is i'll at P~erkinsville.
There were three hundred eight births
and one hundred seventy-nine deaths in
Rutland last year.
John Cassidy, of West Pawlet, was in
stantly killed recently, by falling $50 feet
in a stone quarry at Granville, n. Y.
By the breaking of a locomotive tire on
Saturday night, Engineer Canerdy of St.
Adams on the Montreal run, had a leg
broken.
Charles Prouty, wife and young child
of RartonsvIle drove to Chester. Upon
their arrival there they found their child
smothered.
Harry Sutton of Hinesburgh returned
from New York recently and was taken
sick with smallpox, giving the towns
people quite a scare.
At ST. Adams a house and barn owned
by NJ. Olena, with a quantity of hay and
produce, farming utensils and household
goods, were burned recently. Loss 81, 900 F;
insurance 81 900.
Governor Ormsbee and the officers of
the state militia nave decided to order
United States regulation Springfield rifles
and new equipments throughout for the
entire state militia.
Cornelia Sanders, arrested at Burling-
ton on a charge of trying to poison Mrs.
J.. t. Brownell, so she could marry Mr..
Crowell, has been set free without trial,
her victim failing to appear against her.
The heirs of the late George J. Brooks
nave given in trust to the trustees of the
new Brooks library at B~rattleboro, for
the benefit of the library building and Ii
brary, SIS, 900 as an endowment, to be
known as the Brooks memorial fund.
A. B. Morse, formerly of Chittenden
county and now of western Nebraska,
about a year ago was charged with poi
soning his wife. He was tried and found
guilty. Exceptions were taken to a high
er court and he was granted a new trial.
He is now out II $4,000 bail. Morse
was for several years brennan in A. B.
Maynard's shoe factory in Richmond.
The indictment against Joel NJ. Haven,
late treasurer of the Rutland railroad, for
overissuing stock, was held bad in all its
counts by the supreme court-the first
and fifth for argumentativeness, second
and sixth for duplicity and third and
fourth for inconsistency and repugnancy.
Opinion by Judge Rowell. The respond
ent was discharged. This is believed to
be the end of all the cases against him.
A Miss Prout, about thirty-tive years
ago married Alonzo w. Baker, of Castle
ton, and two children were born to them
WHO arc still living She disaPPoarod
about twenty years ago, and no trace CT
her was ever obtained. Several months
ago notices appeared in different papers
in regard to her, asking for any informa-
ton that could be given, and stating that
the death of an uncle in New York left an
estate of about 81, 300. 900 to be divided
among nine heirs, of which she was one,
II that If proof of her death was fur
nished the two boys would become her
heirs, and if it was not done her share
would have to be held in trust. After a
protracted search and the employment of
detectives, the missing woman was found
in Jersey City, n. r.. She was in feeble
health, and destitute. Her sons remained
with her until her death, which occurred
a few days ago. Each of the sons receiv-
ed $4,000 from the estate.